Frame pointer support for memory load and store operations

Status history

1. Draft6 Mar 2021
2. ⋯Stagnantdate not observed

Abstract

This EIP introduces four new opcodes, MLOADFP, MSTOREFP, GETFP and SETFP that allow for more efficient memory access offset by a user-controlled quantity called the "frame pointer". This permits compilers to more efficiently offload ephemeral data such as local variables to memory instead of the EVM's evaluation stack, which has a number of benefits, including the effective elimination of…